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Okay, well i'm back from the land of the dead tired... for a few minutes anyways. so i thought i'd try to update a little bit. here's the story of how it all went down: (for those on the squemish side... look away!) tuesday afternoon we checked into the hospital, just before a horrible storm came in. the dr on call gave me a little pill (not orally) to help ripen my cervix. he thought though that that with the storm would probably be enough to send me into labor, especially since the gel i had with sarahbeth was all it took and this pill was a whole lot stronger he said. however, all it did was make for an uncomfortable night with no sleep. the nurse we had that night was pretty funny too. when she put us in our room, she was telling us what they would do if there was a tornado warning, since we were in the middle of an intense storm. normally they just move everyone into the hallway with no windows, but since i was connected to the monitor, she would just put me in the closet... hmmm, fun i thought. but we didn't have a warning so we didn't have to worry about it. then, 7:05 wednesday morning, my dr came in and broke my water, then started the dreaded pitocin at 7:30. got an epidural around 10:20 ish, and then tried to rest. unfortunately, i'm so sensitive to medicine, i got really itchy and couldn't rest very long before i had to scratch, i even had to scratch the numb parts, which was really wierd. anyways, started to feel some pressure, and got checked... 6 cm, then about 20 minutes later i felt nausious and threw up, several times. never done that before. didn't like it either. but the nurse said that was a good sign that things were moving along. so after they cleaned me up (no dignity when having a baby... NONE) she checked and sure enough, 8cm! then just a few minutes later, i felt incredible pressure, and nausious again, and so sue checked me again (sue and then a student nurse, virginia, were our nurses) and said i was complete, but she wouldn't let me push on account that with sarahbeth i only pushed for 5 minutes, and TJ only took 3 pushes. so i waited 10-15 minutes for the dr and all the nurses and people that had to be there. MAN, that was hard! then they got all into positition and told me when the next contraction came to go ahead and let them know and we would do this thing! so then they all started talking and i felt one come on... "here comes one!" i said, but no one, heard me. "i'm ready!" i said again, but no one heard me. "she's ready!" brad said a lot louder. "oh" they finally responded! so i took a breath and they only made the count to 8 (instead of the 10 you're supposed to go to) BECAUSE... he was out! so, maybe next time i can just sneeze or cough! anyways so he was 7 lbs, 2 oz and 20 inches long. we had a few problems with his lungs cause he didn't get squeezed enough with just one push... kinda like a c-section baby. so that is the story of how william kempton holley joined our once little family. and just to say a few things about our experience at northport hospital. AWESOME! their policy is one on one, so our nurse stayed in the room with us the whole time! not just popping her head in every 30 minutes. they also had a birthday party for the older siblings complete with cake, candles, and hats, and pins! so fun. also, they have celebration meals for mom and dad the night before you leave the hospital. we picked steak! which was suprisingly really good! (the rest of the hospital food, not good). great hospital though! TJ with baby kempton. my 3 kids! tj and sb in their big brother big sister shirts... tj didn't want to cooperate. mom and baby

kempton in his car seat.